The two Tribolium E(spl) genes show evolutionarily conserved expression and function during embryonic neurogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 130, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 207-225

  Kux, Kristina ^a,b   Kiparaki, Marianthi ^a,c   Delidakis, Christos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; E(spl); Lateral inhibition; Neurogenesis; Notch; Tribolium

Indexed keywords

ARCHAETA SCUTE COMPLEX; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DAUGHTERLESS PROTEIN; E(SPL)1 PROTEIN; E(SPL)3 PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SCUTE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DROSOPHILA; E(SPL)1 GENE; E(SPL)3 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; TRANSGENES; TRIBOLIUM;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 1; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 84875907354     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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